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Yale University Prize Poem, 1903
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Excerpt from Yale University Prize Poem, 1903: Leidenheim
Leidenheim
The Buddhist seers believe the human soul
May pass by turns through many living creatures,
Returning here from some unearthly pole,
The same, with different features.
And some have heard a whisper low and strange
Assert a fact unproved and seldom spoken,
That each such soul through all its forms of change
Bears one unchanging token.
I know not this, and no one really knows,
The wind blows where it will, and mortals hear it,
But know not whence it comes or whither goes,
E'en so the living spirit.
But thoughts like these came o'er my mind of late
In some old university of learning,
While reading dusty scrolls of ancient date
By night-lamps faintly burning -
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